Feels faster, but for a couple of releases gmail and google docs tabs usually gram as much as 400MB each! Only if you could fix the memory hog problem and not introduce tab freezes, chrome would be a perfect browser again. :)

GMail is running unusably slow on this build -- possibly earlier builds as well, but definitely on this one. Windows 8.1 Update 1. No extensions enabled. Starts out nice and fast, and after using heavily for about 10 minutes (reading bunches of e-mails) it suddenly starts crawling. This happens on two different computers, one running the 64 bit and the other running the 32 bit build. Other tabs continue to run as expected -- only GMail slows down.

Stable is actually running fantastically great -- going back to it (and perhaps beta -- haven't tried) has eliminated the performance issues. I'm fearing the eventual transition of the performance-degraded code that is currently in the dev build making its way into stable to where I won't have anywhere to retreat other than another browser.